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Sheldon Kahn
Sheldon F. Kahn (born March 1, 1940) is an American film editor and producer. He was jointly awarded the BAFTA Award for Best Editing, with Lynzee Klingman and Richard Chew, for their work on '' One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest''. Kahn graduated from the University of Southern California in 1963. Filmography ;Documentaries ;TV movies ;TV series Awards Kahn has been nominated for the following awards: * Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''Out of Africa'' * Academy Award for Best Film Editing for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' * American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film for ''Out of Africa'' * American Cinema Editors Award for Best Edited Feature Film for ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest'' External links * Review of 'Kindergarten Cop'at the ''New York Times'' Review of 'Kindergarten Cop'at the ''Los Angeles Times The ''Los Angeles Times'' is an American Newspaper#Daily, daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC, SC, or Southern Cal) is a Private university, private research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Founded in 1880 by Robert M. Widney, it is the oldest private research university in California, and has an enrollment of more than 49,000 students. The university is composed of one Liberal arts education, liberal arts school, the University of Southern California academics, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, and 22 Undergraduate education, undergraduate, Graduate school, graduate, and professional schools, enrolling roughly 21,000 undergraduate and 28,500 Postgraduate education, post-graduate students from all fifty U.S. states and more than 115 countries. It is a member of the Association of American Universities, which it joined in 1969. USC sponsors a variety of intercollegiate sports and competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the Big Ten Conference. Members of USC's sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Irwin Pollack (July 1, 1934 – May 26, 2008) was an American film director, producer, and actor. Pollack is known for directing commercially and critically acclaimed studio films. Over his forty year career he received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards and a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and six BAFTA Awards. Pollack won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Picture for '' Out of Africa'' (1985). He was also nominated for Best Director Oscars for '' They Shoot Horses, Don't They?'' (1969), and ''Tootsie'' (1982). Pollack's other notable films include '' Jeremiah Johnson'' (1972), '' The Way We Were'' (1973), '' The Yakuza'' (1974), '' Three Days of the Condor'' (1975), '' Absence of Malice'' (1981), '' The Firm'' (1993), and '' Sabrina'' (1995). Pollack produced and acted in '' Michael Clayton'' (2007), and produced numerous films such as ''The Fabulous Baker Boys'' (1989), ''Sense and Sensibility'' (1995) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Mandel
Robert Mandel (born 1945) is a film and television director and producer from Oakland, California. He is best known for directing ''School Ties'', which includes early film roles in the careers of Brendan Fraser, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Cole Hauser and Chris O'Donnell. Biography Robert Mandel was born in Oakland, California, but grew up in Queens, New York, where he developed an early interest in theater. Mandel attended Bucknell University before pursuing stage directing at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Public Theater in the early 1970s. In the late 1970s, Mandel attended M.F.A. studies at Columbia University and then at the AFI Conservatory, where he graduated in 1979. During his studies at the American Film Institute, Mandel won the Alfred Hitchcock Award for his thesis film ''Night at O'Rears.'' The film went on to win the First Prizes at Filmex in Los Angeles and the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, and was also exhibited at the New York Film Festival at Lincoln Center. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Shots (film)
''Big Shots'' is a 1987 American adventure comedy film directed by Robert Mandel, starring Ricky Busker and Darius McCrary. Plot An 11-year-old boy from Hinsdale, Illinois, named Obie Dawkins (Ricky Busker) is out fishing with his father ( Bill Hudson), who tells him about the birds and the bees. All the while Obie shows interest in his dad's watch, who eventually gives it to him. Later that morning in school, Obie's mom (Brynn Thayer) arrives to tell him that his dad is in the hospital. The family learns that he suffered a massive heart attack, which he dies from days later. Arriving at school Obie is reminded of the way his dad took him to school when he sees a father drop his son off. Upset, Obie leaves school and runs away on his bike. Having left the suburbs Obie finds himself on the South Side of Chicago. There, Obie is lured into a lot where he is attacked and robbed of his bike and watch. A boy named Scam (Darius McCrary), an 11-year-old street hustler, befriends him and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Valdez
Luis Miguel Valdez (born June 26, 1940) is an American playwright, screenwriter, film director and actor. Regarded as the father of Chicano film and playwriting, Valdez is best known for his play '' Zoot Suit'', his movie '' La Bamba'', and his creation of El Teatro Campesino. A pioneer in the Chicano Movement, Valdez broadened the scope of theatre and arts of the Chicano community. Biography Early life Valdez was born in Delano, California, to migrant farm worker parents from Mexico, Armeda and Francisco Valdez. The second of 10 children in his family, Valdez began to work the fields at the age of 6. One of his brothers is actor Daniel Valdez. Throughout his childhood, the family moved from harvest to harvest around the central valleys of California. Due to this peripatetic existence, he attended many different schools before the family finally settled in San Jose, California. Education Valdez began school in Stratford, California. His interest in theatre began in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Bamba (film)
''La Bamba'' is a 1987 American biographical drama film written and directed by Luis Valdez. The film follows the life and short-lived musical career of American Chicano rock and roll star Ritchie Valens. The film stars Lou Diamond Phillips as Valens, Esai Morales, Rosanna DeSoto, Elizabeth Peña, Danielle von Zerneck and Joe Pantoliano. The film also covers the effect that Valens' career had on the lives of his half-brother Bob Morales, his girlfriend Donna Ludwig, and the rest of his family. The film is titled after a traditional Mexican folk song of the same name, which Valens transformed into a rock and roll rendition in 1958. In 2017, ''La Bamba'' was included in the annual selection of 25 motion pictures added to the National Film Registry of the U.S. Library of Congress being deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and recommended for preservation. Plot During the summer of 1957 in Southern California, Richard "Richie" Steven Valenzuela is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Legal Eagles
''Legal Eagles'' is a 1986 American legal romantic comedy thriller film directed by Ivan Reitman, written by Jim Cash and Jack Epps, Jr. from a story by Reitman and the screenwriters, and starring Robert Redford, Debra Winger, and Daryl Hannah. Plot Tom Logan (Robert Redford), an Assistant District Attorney in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office, has his sights set on being the next District Attorney. Laura Kelly (Debra Winger), an attorney representing performance artist Chelsea Deardon (Daryl Hannah), seeks out Logan to discuss her client's case. Accused of attempting to steal a painting from millionaire Robert Forrester (John McMartin), Chelsea claims that her artist father, Sebastian Deardon (James Hurdle), gave her the painting eighteen years earlier for her 8th birthday. That same day, her father and most of his paintings were lost in a mysterious fire. At a formal dinner to publicly launch Logan's candidacy for District Attorney, Kelly unexpectedly arrives with C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Out Of Africa (film)
''Out of Africa'' is a 1985 American epic romantic drama film directed and produced by Sydney Pollack, and starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford. The film is based loosely on the 1937 autobiographical book ''Out of Africa'' written by Isak Dinesen (the pseudonym of Danish author Karen Blixen), with additional material from Dinesen's 1960 book ''Shadows on the Grass'' and other sources. The book was adapted into a screenplay by Kurt Luedtke, and this screenplay was filmed in 1984. Streep played Karen Blixen, Redford played Denys Finch Hatton, and Klaus Maria Brandauer played Baron Bror Blixen. Others in the film include Michael Kitchen as Berkeley Cole, Malick Bowens as Farah, Stephen Kinyanjui as the Chief, Michael Gough as Lord Delamere, Suzanna Hamilton as Felicity, and the model and actress Iman as Mariammo. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. It was also a commercial success and won seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Reitman
Ivan Reitman (; October 27, 1946 – February 12, 2022) was a Canadian film director and producer. He was known for his comedy films, especially in the 1980s and 1990s. Reitman was the owner of The Montecito Picture Company, founded in 1998. Films he directed include ''Meatballs (film), Meatballs'' (1979), ''Stripes (film), Stripes'' (1981), ''Ghostbusters'' (1984), ''Twins (1988 film), Twins'' (1988), ''Ghostbusters II'' (1989), ''Kindergarten Cop'' (1990), ''Dave (film), Dave'' (1993), ''Junior (1994 film), Junior'' (1994) and ''Draft Day'' (2014). Reitman also served as producer for such films as ''Animal House, National Lampoon's Animal House'' (1978), ''Heavy Metal (film), Heavy Metal'' (1981), ''Space Jam'' (1996) and ''Private Parts (1997 film), Private Parts'' (1997). Early life Ivan Reitman was born in the town of Komárno, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia), on October 27, 1946, the son of Klara (Raab) and Ladislav "Leslie" Reitman. Both of Reitman's parents were History ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghostbusters
''Ghostbusters'' is a 1984 American supernatural comedy film directed by Ivan Reitman and written by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis. It stars Bill Murray, Aykroyd, and Ramis as Peter Venkman, Ray Stantz, and Egon Spengler, three eccentric parapsychologists who start a ghost-catching business in New York City. It also stars Sigourney Weaver and Rick Moranis, and features Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and William Atherton in supporting roles. Based on his fascination with spirituality, Aykroyd conceived ''Ghostbusters'' as a project starring himself and John Belushi, in which they would venture through time and space battling supernatural threats. Following Belushi's death in 1982, and with Aykroyd's concept deemed financially impractical, Ramis was hired to help rewrite the script to set it in New York City and make it more realistic. It was the first comedy film to employ expensive special effects, and Columbia Pictures, concerned about its relatively high $25–30 mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unfaithfully Yours (1984 Film)
''Unfaithfully Yours'' is a 1984 American romantic comedy film directed by Howard Zieff, starring Dudley Moore and Nastassja Kinski and featuring Armand Assante and Albert Brooks. The screenplay was written by Valerie Curtin, Barry Levinson, and Robert Klane based on Preston Sturges' screenplay for the 1948 film of the same name. The original music score is by Bill Conti and the song "Unfaithfully Yours (One Love)" was written for the film and performed by Stephen Bishop. Plot Claude Eastman is a composer and the conductor of a prestigious symphony who has recently married beautiful Daniella, a much younger woman. While traveling, he sends a message to his friend Norman Robbins to keep an eye on his wife, but the message is garbled by Claude's Italian valet Giuseppe, and Norman hires a private detective named Keller to investigate Daniella. The private eye's report, which comes with a fuzzy video, is that Daniella had an assignation with a man who, by wearing Argyle socks, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kiss Me Goodbye (film)
''Kiss Me Goodbye'' is a 1982 American romantic comedy film directed by Robert Mulligan, and starring Sally Field, James Caan, Jeff Bridges and Claire Trevor (in her final film role). It is a remake of '' Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands'' (''Dona Flor e Seus Dois Maridos'' in Portuguese), a 1976 Brazilian film, based on Jorge Amado's book of the same name. Field was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy/Musical for her performance, but Caan later said he disliked the film, as he did several ones in which he appeared either just to keep working or for the money. In a 1991 interview, Caan claimed that making ''Kiss Me Goodbye'' was one of the most unpleasant experiences of his life, and that as a consequence, he did not make another film for five years. Plot Kay is the widow of a Broadway showman called Jolly, who died falling from a staircase at their home. Kay plans to remarry, to an Egyptologist named Rupert, and suggests tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
